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Here’s how the story goes, I started Physician Assistant school in July of 2017 happy as ever but busy as ever. My boyfriend and I had celebrated our 3 year anniversary before school began and things finally felt settled in. September rolls around and my then boyfriend completely surprised me by asking me to become […]

As some of you may know, I applied to PA school straight from undergraduate school and DID NOT get in on my first try. Although I knew it was a big possibility after reading all the forums, blog posts, and hearing about different peoples experiences along the way, I was obviously disappointed. I remember consciously […]

Books used during this block: First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Clerkship, Pestsana’s Surgery Notes, Online Med Ed Videos Emergency Medicine Words cant describe how excited and nervous I was to begin my Emergency Medicine rotation! This rotation had been much looked forward to since clinicals began. My rotation was at a University Medical Center that had many […]

My school combines our 4 week rotations into “block” formation. For example, we have a Primary Care block, Emergency Medicine/Surgery block, Women’s Health/Pediatrics block, and Medicine block. My first block was Primary Care and that consists of Psychiatry, Family Medicine and an elective! Dermatology was my chosen elective as I’ve seriously considered choosing this specialty […]

Now that I am officially finished with the first semester of Physician Assistant school, I wanted to write up a re-cap of some of my study habits, how I balanced my time, how I ended up doing in my classes, and some things I wish I would’ve done. Hopefully my experience will be able to […]

One of the pearls of UTMB for me was their affiliation with St. Vincent’s Hope Clinic. St. Vincent’s Clinic is a cooperative effort between UTMB and St. Vincent’s House that is committed to providing free quality healthcare to the underserved population of Galveston while facilitating the education of UTMB Medical and Physician Assistant students. Student […]

I would like to send a warm welcome to Meghan’s followers! My name is Amber, and I am currently in my third quarter of Physician Assistant school at South University in Savannah, GA. I am 26 years old, I began PA school in January 2017, I am a blogger as well, and my page can […]

Hi everyone! Today, I’m going to chronicle a day in PA school. Now, this is going to seem SO light in its load, but that’s because UTMB has tried to “ease” its incoming students in with the short summer semester to allow them time to adjust to school again. For our first summer semester, we […]

Hi everyone! I’m back with another PA-C interview, this time in pediatric surgery! Onyi has been a Physician Assistant for 3 and a half years in several different specialties but is currently in peds surgery. She has her own website that she has relaunched that focuses on balancing being a mom, her career, and marriage. […]

Frequently Asked Questions Does becoming an EMT boost your application? I can only assume that becoming an EMT helped boost up my application, especially because I applied two times to PA school. It shows that I continued to pursue a higher level of patient acuity and took a bigger role of responsibility over being a […]